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lostmyway

This may be a bit whimsical, but does anyone think that the classic image of a witch living alone with a "familiar" such as a cat and a special knowledge of potions and natural healing agents might reflect someone who could have been on the autistic spectrum?

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  • On a similar note, women were sometimes locked away in mental institutions for unconventional behaviour - sometimes sexual but not always.

    Control was ever present and in many ways, here and in other parts of the world, women are still being controlled and punished to varying degrees.

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    Yes, historically, women have been terribly treated and a woman who was seen as a bit "odd" would have been at an even greater disadvantage than the average one.

    I gather that some Victorian men would commit a wife to an asylum who, because he wanted to take control of her finances, was able to do so on the flimsiest reason due to the male-dominated society that the Victorian era fostered. Women in those days had pretty much zero rights.

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  • in reply to B

    Yes, historically, women have been terribly treated and a woman who was seen as a bit "odd" would have been at an even greater disadvantage than the average one.

    I gather that some Victorian men would commit a wife to an asylum who, because he wanted to take control of her finances, was able to do so on the flimsiest reason due to the male-dominated society that the Victorian era fostered. Women in those days had pretty much zero rights.

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